Pencil-sharpener.



No. 889,135. PATENTED MAY 26, 1958 s. B. JONES, DBGD.

M. J. JONES, ADMINISTRATBIX.

PENCIL SHARPENER.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT.13, 190a.

WIT-ED STAWENT OFFICE SAMUEL B. lTONES, OF BUTLER, INDIANA; MINDA I. JONES ADMINISTRATRIX OF SAID r SAMUEL B. JONES,- DECEASED.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed September 13, 1906. Serial No. 334,454.

Patented May 26, 1908.

To all whom it concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL B. Jonns, a

citizen of the United States, residingat Butspecification.

ler, in the county of Dekalb and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Penoil-Sharpener, of which the following is a I This invention relates to pencil sharpeners.

The object of the inventi on is' to rovide a simple and' thoroughly efiicient orm of sharpener, which will smoothly and rapidly cut away the wood of the pencil, and at the described and c aimed.

With he above a d other objects in yiew,

same time point the lead.

as will appear as the nature of the invention is betterjunderstood, the same consists the novel form. of encil sharpener hereinafter In the accompanying drawings, forming a pai't of this specification, and in which like characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts: Figure 1 is a view in'perspective of the sharpener. Fig. ,2 is a longitudinal sectional view through the sharpener and through a ea or chip receptacle combined therewith, a ead pencil being exhibited in I .dotted lines. Fig. 3 is-a detail View, in side elevation, ofthe apex or tip portion of the sharpener.

The sharpener comprises a hollow cone 1, provided in one wall with a spiral slot 2, extending from the apex of the cone to its base. Detachably secured to theinner surface of the cone and projectingbeyond the edge of catc A pencil sharpener compns one wall of the slot is a kmfie 3, the cutting edgf 4 of which corresponds in contour to the wa s of the slot, the outer end 4? of the knife being extended beyond the said apex to pro vidleha liad-pointing member ase of the cone merges into a cylindrical body 6, a portion of the length of secured by Letters-Patent is:-

f ll described theinvention, what is 'c aimed as new and is desired to be ing a hollowcone provlded in one wall with a spiral slot v extendin from the apex of the cone to its base, an a knife, corresponding in contour to the walls of the slot, detachablg secured to the inner surface of the cone an projecting beyond the edge of one wall of the slot, the outer end of the knife being extended beyond the said apex to provide a leadpointing member.

In testimony that my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.-

SAMUEL BJJoNns. Witnesses:

EDWARD B. DUNTEN, FIRED D. WEBSTER.

Iclaim the foregoing as 

